Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Dec. 19
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British Columbia’s Appeal Court is scheduled to release a decision today on a couple whose guilty verdict over plotting to blow up the provincial legislature was thrown out by a lower court judge.

SURREY, B.C. — The company that supplies natural gas to homes and businesses around British Columbia says customers can go back to normal use after an explosion and fire in a pipeline that forced a plea for conservation.

VANCOUVER — A financial services institution is forecasting an ongoing slowdown in British Columbia’s housing market, one day after the Canadian Real Estate Association predicted home sales will continue to dip in the province next year.